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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781585678488ISBN:1585678481
Description: As New in As New dust jacket. 1585678481. 1.6 x 8.9 x 6.2 Inches; 512 pages; A parrot uncomprehendingly rattles off a string of words learned by rote. And we marvel! Yet we seem to take our own astonishing linguistic powers for granted—the ability to speak, listen, and understand, to read and write. We all understand why language works—we have to communicate to survive—and now David Crystal, the world authority on language, shows us how. How are languages born? How does conversation work? How ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Overlook Press, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781585678488ISBN:1585678481
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Pr
Date Published: 2006-11-16
ISBN-13:9781585678488ISBN:1585678481
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Date Published: 2006-11-16
ISBN-13:9781585678488ISBN:1585678481
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Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781585678488ISBN:1585678481
Description: As New in as new jacket. How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, And Languages Live or Die. Hardcover. 500 pp. with index. Interesting study by a world authority on linguistic English on how language works---how are languages born? How does conversation work? How do we learn to read? How do gestures and tone of voice impact communication? A very fine, unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. read more
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